英和和英

読み方 ぶつ

固名

The Buddha

読み方 ほとけ

名詞

1

The Buddha:（に相当するは）a saint

用例

• 彼女の夫は仏様のような人だ
  Her husband is a saint of a man.

• 仏の顔も三度（ということがある）
  You are enough to provoke a saint.
• 知らぬが仏
  “Ignorance is bliss.”【イディオム・格言的】
• 地獄で仏に逢ったよう
  He was a friend in need.
• 仏作って魂入れず
  to leave the body without the soul
• 神も仏も無いものか
  Is there no God?
• 傀儡師首に
  The puppet-player quaint―
• 　掛けたる頭陀袋
  His bag hangs from his neck;
• 　仏出そうか
  He can produce his saint
• 　鬼を出そうか
  Or devil at your beck

2

（＝死人）a dead person; the deceased

用例

• 仏になる
  to die

• 仏様だ
  He is dead.
• 仏に線香を立てる
  to burn incense before the deceased